Notes

*Can be overburned with EAC on a 700MB/80-min. CD-R following capacity test.

Technical Notes:

The dub was recorded on Nakamichi MR-2’s by the person who provided the source cassettes. Unfortunately, the recording levels are less than optimal: the left channel averages at -5 dB, while the right channel averages at 0 dB. This imbalance could not be compensatorily corrected, as the Edirol’s input-level control is unitary across both channels for unbalanced analog inputs, precluding individuated left-channel and right-channel gain adjustments. Still, the amplitude differential is slight, and creates no phase problems. The underrecording yielded prominent tape hiss; this was greatly reduced by using an analog EQ with a sharp roll-off at 9kHz and no output at 16kHz. Careful comparative listening revealed no phase-shift or artifacts due to EQ.

The binaural source has real presence; both the Wall and the hall ring true. This recording features fuller vocals, deeper bass response, and less reverb than does the circulating stereo audience recording made by Pat Lee (which is excellent). This recording is free from the constant crowd chatter that mars that recording; those songs on that master that are missing their opening notes are intact here. (The occasional handclapping is mildly distracting; the lusty screams from the crowd are welcome.) Tonal range and timbral accuracy are quite good; Keith’s piano, Billy’s cymbals, and Jerry’s leads cut through nicely. Still, at times, the sound here verges on distortion.

Occasionally, there are instances when it sounds like the taper inadvertently depressed the pause button, causing momentary pitch-slippage. There are also intermittent crackles and static, several recording-equipment glitches and tape dropouts, and some hotspots. None of these anomalies lasts very long.

Two songs, “Playin’ in the Band” and “Sugar Magnolia,” are each missing three seconds of music due to possible tape-flip gaps. These gaps were removed (and the remaining ends were spliced); they have not been patched.

Two songs were pretermitted: “Playin’ in the Band” and “Johnny B. Goode.” (This was not due to tape run-out on the dubs; there is blank tape after these songs.) The final fourteen seconds of “Playin’” have been inartfully tacked on from Charlie Miller’s masterly transcription of Pat Lee’s masters, ShnID-98822. The encore cuts during the final note and was not patched.

No digital pitch-correction, noise-reduction, or sound-adjustment algorithms were used in this transcription.

Known Flaws (flawless tracks not listed):

Disc One

01 “Me and My Uncle”: 01:19 minor glitch; 01:39 volume drops, tone darkens

03 “Beat It On Down the Line”: 00:37 minor glitch

04 “Deal”: 00:42 minor glitch; 02:58-02:59 vocal hotspot

05 “Mexicali Blues”: Jerry flubs chord 00:51; 01:50 static

06 “It Must Have Been the Roses”: 01:30, 01:43, 04:22 vocal hotspots

07 “The Race Is On”: Jerry flubs chord 00:13

08 “Scarlet Begonias”: 01:45, 03:29 minor glitches; 03:43 vocal hotspot

09 “El Paso”: 01:30 minor glitch; 03:17-03:18 pause w/pitch-slippage; 03:44 static

10 “Row Jimmy”: Jerry flubs chord 06:34; 03:38 dropout;
05:30 vocal hotspot; 07:10 pause w/pitch-slippage;
07:39 minor glitch ; 08:05-08:06 pause w/music missing;
08:25-08:44 channel-chop at run-out

11 “Money Money”: 00:20 volume drops; 01:12, 01:28 minor glitches;
02:12, 03:07 hotspots; 03:13, 03:44 minor glitches

12 “Ship of Fools”: Jerry flubs chord 00:45; 00:32, 02:15 vocal hotspots;
04:42, 05:40 minor glitches

13 “Weather Report Suite”: 07:10 minor glitch; 12:11 dropout; 12:55 tone darkens

14 “China Doll”: 02:28 minor glitch

Disc Two

01 “Playin’ in the Band”: 02:49 tone darkens
(possible pre-dubbing engagement of Dolby B or change in bias or EQ);
02:52 minor glitch; 10:09, 16:04 static;
16:55 minor glitch; 19:53-19:55 pitch-slippage;
21:01 possible tape-flip gap w/music missing;
28:34-28:37 dropouts;
30:54, 30:58 pauses w/pitch-slippage;
31:12, 31:16 pauses w/pitch-slippage;
34:26 equipment glitch;
37:26 pause w/pitch-slippage;
37:31-37:33 pause w/music missing;
42:38, 42:57 minor glitches;
46:11, 46:30 minor glitches;
46:47-47:01 patched w/ShnID-98822 (Lee/Miller)

02 “U.S. Blues”: 00:54 minor glitch; 00:57 static; 05:24 minor glitch

04 “Stella Blue”: 01:12 minor glitch; 02:13 pause w/pitch-slippage

Disc Three

01 “Eyes of the World”: Jerry flubs chord 01:16; 07:47 minor glitch;
12:33-12:34 pitch-slippage; 13:52, 13:57 static

02 “Wharf Rat”: 03:35 minor glitch; 03:57 equipment glitch;
04:30 vocal hotspot; 05:15, 07:55-07:58 minor glitches;
09:40 pitch-slippage

03 “Sugar Magnolia”: 01:53 possible tape-flip gap w/music missing;
02:25 minor glitch; 03:05-03:10 pitch-slippage;
03:32, 05:42, 07:44-07:45 minor glitches;
08:10 distortion (not from dubbing or transcription)

04 “Johnny B. Goode”: 00:45-00:50 vocal hotspots; 01:00 static;
01:20-01:33 vocal hotspots; 02:31 minor glitch;
03:27, 03:32, 03:36 minor glitches;
03:50 final note cuts out

Post-Transcription Tools:

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